From: Jonathan Hays (nomad@gfoyle.org)
Date: Tue Apr 20 2004 - 21:24:21 GMT-3
you wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On
>Behalf Of Bill Lijewski
>Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 3:47 PM
>To: 'Brian McGahan'; 'Edward Kelly'; 'Volodymyr Levytskyy';
>ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: RE: boot camp again :) [bcc][faked-from]
>
>
>I would agree with Brian. Most of the people that I talk to are
>frustrated with the grading on the exam. They don't know why they
>didn't receive full credit for a section and they get no feedback from
>Cisco.
[snip]
= = =
While I don't disagree with anything Bill said in his post, I have to
stick my neck out and state that there _is_ a way you can get more
feedback on what the "Cisco Solution" is to the lab exam.
The vast majority of candidates do NOT take full advantage of the
proctors. I have learned a lot about the "Cisco Solution" to the lab
exam by constantly bugging the proctors during the (many) times I have
taken the exam and every single time I have asked at least 2 or 3 times
as many questions as anyone else in the room. I don't think I ever let
more than 20 minutes go by without asking the proctor a question. I
think this is the reason my scores consistently increased from exam to
exam. If you don't have the time to ask 15 to 25 questions of the
proctor then you are not adequately prepared when you walk into the exam
room. To give you some idea of what I mean, except for my first attempt,
I had plenty of time to ask my 20 questions PLUS spend a couple of hours
searching the Doc CD for those obscure commands that drive everyone
crazy (except for the maniacs that somehow find the time to read the
entire Doc CD. ;-)
Of course, usually you have to have _some_ idea of what the question is
about and what your own approach might be when you go up to ask a
clarifying question, although some questions may be useful in simply
understanding the question. But once you are at that point of
understanding the question, you can ask additional questions like, "does
the problem constraint hold true under condition X?" or "does the
problem constraint depend on this, in the previous section" or "I
interpret this as implying X or do they really mean Y?" With enough
questions you soon learn what types of questions are useless and what
questions will help you get the "Cisco Solution".
HTH,
Jonathan
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